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Steve, a video game obsessive, has reached his 30th birthday only to realise that his life has not turned out how he had once hoped it would. His business is failing, his most recent girlfriend has just left him and video games, the one thing that has been with him constantly since childhood, are increasingly becoming alien to him. In a last gasp effort to understand what went wrong, Steve begins to recall his life's past relationships, both with long-lost loves and with video games, hoping that within them he may find the key to a happier future. A book for anyone who has ever played a video...

Many of the canteens in this book were excavated from battlefields and campsites. There are also canteens which were early battlefield pick ups, from private collections, and from early Civil War museums. This book has over two hundred photographs and it will give the reader a rare opportunity to take a glimpse into the past to see what the soldier used and some of the battlefields he fought on.

Kennesaw, called "Big Shanty" during the Civil War, started out in the 1830s as a railroad shanty town during the construction of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. In many ways, Kennesaw is a typical small town in Northern Georgia--it was built along the railroad tracks, cotton was the first engine of economic growth, stagnation occurred from the 1920s to the 1950s, and then it blossomed in the latter part of the 20th century as a suburb of Atlanta--but in other ways, Kennesaw is unique. The Andrews Raid, immortalized by Walt Disney as The Great Locomotive Chase, occurred here in 1862. In...